PC Gaming
I fear Grow a Garden’s entire premise was ruined for me less than 30 minutes in when I was given a gigantic watermelon by another player, which then turned out to be worth 800,000 sheckles. I was still barely scraping 1,000 from my handful of strawberry and blueberry bushes, and in a flash the joys…
Windows 10 is officially dead to Microsoft come October 14. Microsoft had said you’d need to cough up $30 to a year to add another year of security updates. But now there’s a way to keep your install of Win 10 safe for free. But it’s a little convoluted. Microsoft says you can now have…
We’ve seen a lot of OLED gaming monitors with impressive refresh rates recently, and some of them are pretty good. Acer’s 4K, 32-inch Predator X32X QD-OLED display marks itself out from the pack by sporting a 1700R curve, which will instantly endear it to some and cause others to come out in the kind of…
The UK’s Data (Use and Access) Bill has now passed, without the amendment that would’ve required AI tools to declare the use of copyrighted material, or any provision for copyright holders to ‘opt-out’ of their work being used as training data. The whole thing has left me wondering if there’ll ever be something that AI…
As you may have discovered earlier while reading about its modkit requiring almost a full terabyte of space, Stalker 2 got a pretty gargantuan patch today. GSC is calling it the “Guns and Looting update,” which I feel undersells it a little, and the rest of us are calling it patch 1.5. It’s a doozy,…
I’ve spent a good few weeks now agonising over which of these two notebooks can claim the crown of best 14-inch gaming laptop—should it be the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 claiming the title for the second year running, or does the redesigned Razer Blade 14 do enough to topple the incumbent champ? Honestly, from when…
There’s a lot to be said for iteration. Take the Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 3, for example. While I haven’t always been a fan of Turtle Beach headsets as a whole, this particular set has finally come good on its third generation, and as a result I’ve put it in its rightful place as…
Name a better pairing than Micron and Phison. I’ll wait. PB&J? Penn and Teller? Not a chance. That fateful mix of Micron flash and Phison controller has delivered some absolutely scorchingly fast SSDs over the years. From the T500 to the T705, it’s a company that’s gone from strength to strength, delivering some exceptional storage…
The Phison E31T drives are finally here and arriving by the dozen. Here, I have Kioxia’s Exceria Plus G4, and it is quite the curious thing. Powered with a mix of both Kioxia flash and Phison controller tech, it’s aimed squarely at those looking for an entry-level PCIe 5.0 drive. One that doesn’t break the…
I’m very thankful for what Phison has managed to achieve over the last few years. Its controller tech has been incredible, delivering massive gobbets of performance for those in the professional industry. But that doesn’t mean I want its controllers to be the only thing I review for the next five years. Here’s the thing:…